Quality Tools

Solution Search:
E-Guide: A Guide to Comprehensive Business Intelligence and Data Quality by Pitney Bowes Business Insight
To grow and capitalize upon this trend, value-added resellers (VARs) must offer the data quality tools and ecosystem essential for staying ahead of the competition.

In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchSystemsChannel.com and Pitney Bowes Software, you will gain insight into the essential role data quality now plays in an

eGuide: Customer data integration implementation: How to be a CDI success story by Acxiom Corporation
management (MDM) system enables organizations to lack a realistic way of applying vital data quality tools enterprise-wide. At the same time, companies are turning from traditional batch-oriented techniques to real-time data integration in order to eliminate the scourge of out-of-date data.

Read this E-Guide and explore a variety of suitable real

Optimize Your Software Processes with CodePro AnalytiX™ by Instantiations
improvement and optimization into the software process. Thus, CodePro AnalytiX is a full set of tools to support your organization in its quest for sustainable high levels of software quality, security and productivity In order to streamline and optimize your software process with the Eclipse-based CodePro AnalytiX quality, security
Building a Data Quality Scorecard for Operational Data Governance by DataFlux Corporation
data effectively satisfies the organization's business needs. This is measured with a "data quality scorecard", a management tool for monitoring organizational performance. Operational data governance is the manifestation of the processes and protocols necessary to ensure that an acceptable level of confidence in the data
Making Quality a Deliverable in Eclipse-Based Java Development by Instantiations
44; or use a combination of the two implementation approaches. How do you know when the quality of your Java software needs improvement? You must have definitive standards and metrics, consistently applied, to make this judgment. Treat quality as a deliverable, establishing thresholds against which your organization must
Enterprise Information Management: In Support of Operational, Analytic, and Governance Initiatives by SAP BusinessObjects
information management (EIM), a practice that holistically coordinates teams and integrates tools, rather than having data and other information isolated and managed by independent teams using their own set of management tools. In most organizations today, data and other information is managed in isolated silos by independent teams
IBM Rational Asset Manager e-Kit by IBM
SOA and systems development assets. It reduces software development costs and improves quality by facilitating the reuse of all types of software development related assets.

Explore the benefits of IBM Rational® Asset Manager with this IBM e-Kit and learn how to do more with your reusable assets. Discover how to track and audit
The Forrester Wave: Requirements Management, Q2 2008 by Hewlett-Packard Company
In Forrester's 79-criteria evaluation of requirements management tools vendors, five standalone requirements management tools and four application life-cycle management (ALM) solutions that include requirements management capabilities went head-to-head. Read this research paper to see how each one fared. In
Reinsurance Company Improves Data Quality, Enhances Profitability with DataFlux by DataFlux Corporation
DataFlux dfPower Studio combines several tools to help standardize incoming data and assist companies in building business rules into their system. This reinsurance company not only wanted to improve the quality of its data by standardizing the information, it also wanted to create
Business Analytics for the CIO by SAS Institute Inc.
the key goals of IT is to consolidate all this data so that it can be analyzed to create timely, high-quality information to support proactive decision making. But, with systems already stretched to the limit, managing, controlling and monitoring incoming data presents immense challenges: insufficient data quality processes, information
CodePro AnalytiX: Automated Code Quality and Security Analysis for Eclipse Java Developers by Instantiations
collaboration functionality. CodePro AnalytiX is a comprehensive automated software code quality and security analysis toolkit that helps developers automatically improve software quality, reliability, and maintainability in their applications.

Deployed on a developer's desktop and/or seamlessly integrated into a continuous or

Leading Bank Chooses DataFlux to Create More Accurate, Complete Risk Reports by DataFlux Corporation
dfPower® Studio to review and compare multiple data sources simultaneously through data quality and data integration workflows. Although decision-making was decentralized throughout the company, the bank's corporate headquarters still needed to create credit risk management reports that would allow those local decisions
eGuide: Application Lifecycle Management by Hewlett-Packard Company
in ALM and provides an overview of the challenges associated with building and managing quality into the software development life cycle (SDLC). Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) must evolve to meet the changing requirements of business. These challenges need to be supported by a new generation of ALM tools that break down
Quality in Action: Using Rational Quality Manager by IBM
This podcast discusses Rational Quality Manager - a web-based software test management environment that enables teams to deliver greater quality software, improve operational efficiency and continuously lower risk. The workforce of the future is changing, becoming
Integrated Infrastructure and Performance Management for Virtualized Environments by CA
center space and reduce environmental impacts. This paper describes a comprehensive set of CA tools for managing virtual environments. Enterprises, government agencies and service providers are increasingly employing virtualized environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce environmental impacts. The
Turn SOX Compliance into Cash: Link Sarbanes-Oxley Requirements to Business Improvement. by Oversight Systems
Successful quality and compliance is a continuous improvement process that demands a closed-loop control structure. Oversight Systems provides results and a leveraged environment for improving quality in financial operations. Sarbanes-Oxley demands
The State of Data: Harnessing Core Data Issues to Improve Organizational Efficiency, Profitability and Competitive Advantage by SAS Institute Inc.
Tech Briefing presents a series of insightful, timely articles that strike at the heart of data quality and data integration challenges. Included here is a close look at harnessing the exploding volumes of unstructured and semistructured data, which so many companies are struggling to tame and leverage for true business value. There is much
Innovation in Software Development for Tough Economic Times by Black Diamond Software
PRESTO, using the IBM Rational jazz technology is a set of VMWare-based virtual appliances that provides a complete, cost effective, easy to use IBM-centric software development and delivery environment. Read this product overview to learn more. This paper was written specifically for software developers and individuals who play a
Cost-Effective Database Administration Without Compromising Service Quality by Ntirety
needs. This includes a team of assigned database administrators, all the necessary tools, 24x7 support and proactive service designed to prevent database problems from happening. All for a predictable, fixed monthly costs.

Key advantages of Database Administration as a Service™ include:

  • Immediate return on investment
BMC Database Administration Solution for DB2 z/OS by BMC Software, Inc
BMC provides a set of tools and utilities that are designed to automate the complex processes involved in updating and managing DB2 environments with the aim of being easy to use, and fast and effective in their execution. BMC provides a set of tools and utilities that
Efficiency and Cost Control in Managing Network and Application Management by Fluke Networks
maturity step requires a comprehensive set of strategies, practices, and tools that reduces quality risk across the lifecycle of your networks and applications, focused on proactively assuring quality services in support of the broader organization.

Read industry analyst Enterprise Management Associate's white paper and you'll learn:

Requirements-Driven Product Development: Case Studies in A&D, Medical Electronics, and Automotive by IBM
efforts across all disciplines, requirements management has emerged as a primary driver for quality improvement across product development. This collection of case studies discusses the challenges and payoffs involved in implementing a requirements management solution. Due to its ability to closely coordinate efforts across all
Source Code Analysis in an Agile World by Klocwork
software developers have had to evolve the way they develop code to be both faster and higher quality. As part of this trend, the Waterfall method of software development began to give way in the late 1990s to a more lightweight method of software development: Agile.

The use of Agile has grown in the last decade and is still maturing. Software

In my Defense let me State that the Bed was Already on Fire when I climbed into it -- A Guide for Medical Device Developers to design better products, save money, and meet FDA/CDRH requirements by IBM
with the "suggestions" of the CDRH. Technology exists today that allows a company's current tools and processes to be retained, while presenting choices that developers can use to meet CDRH guidelines. EMF research has shown that these technologies are not only affordable, but that they can increase ROI and significantly reduce the
Building a Data Quality Scorecard to Achieve Data Governance by DataFlux Corporation
Operational data governance is the manifestation of the actionable processes and protocols necessary to ensure that an acceptable level of confidence in the data effectively satisfies the organization's business needs. Operational data governanceis the manifestation of the actionable processes and protocols necessary to
Related Trends
Harte Hanks acquires postal address data quality software
Global Address, a global postal address data quality software and services firm, to bolster its address services and its Trillium Software division More...
Aug 2, 2006
IBM Information Server seems solid, analysts say
compelling updates to WebSphere DataStage and Quality Stage, and modules for collaborative data stewardship More...
Oct 25, 2006
Teradata releases Warehouse Miner 5
functionality for data profiling, data quality, data pre-processing and model management. Experts say it can compete with SAS, SPSS and others More...
Jan 16, 2007
BI tools get easier to use
are working to offer business intelligence tools that better integrate front-end interfaces with back-end data, making analytics easier to use for non-technical users More...
Dec 5, 2006
Cognos announces new mobile business intelligence tools
plans to bring its reporting and analysis tools to the BlackBerry platform in the first half of 2007 More...
Sep 19, 2006
Related Expert Advice
Standalone utilities to convert a COBOL flat file into XML format by Ed Tittel
utility that can cross check this data file against a supplied schema? Please note that we do have some privacy concerns. Thank you for the help. I assume this means you wouldn't be willing to use the W3C's own free Web-based Schema Checking service or other similar offerings such as More...
Feb 13, 2006
McFarlane tackles liquid cooled racks by Robert McFarlane
able to publish controlled test data to back it up. What I can do is provide a set of considerations and question (not necessarily complete) you can use before deciding on one of these specialized cabinets, or on the approach as a whole.

The most important thing to remember when More...

Sep 18, 2005
Drying out servers after a sprinkler discharge by Lance Harry
of a small electrical fire in our data center, our sprinkler systems were activated and now we're dealing with a clean up. How do we properly dry out our servers after a sprinkler discharge?

There are a number of issues you are probably dealing with as a result of a small fire in the More...

Jul 11, 2005